10 Number-based Examples for Deciphering PHP Regular Expressions

PHP regular expression syntax is almost as indecipherable as the United States tax code, prompting the programmer to consult a manual almost automatically every time he or she needs to perform a particularly complex parsing task. If you're one of those programmers who would like to decipher the mish-mash of backslashes, brackets, asterisks and other characters that somehow can root out everything from email addresses to HTML tags, Jason Gilmore has written a PHPBuilder.com tutorial just for you. He introduces PHP regular expressions using 10 numerically-oriented examples.